The Return Of Stupidity!

February 26, 2009
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It is well known that the internet is full of nonsense. Most web pages, comments and blogs  are full of rants and extra ordinary acts of stupidity. I mean, I don’t understand how the internet takes all this crap from humans? Don’t the electrons sigh and weep when they see all the kinds of nonsense bloggers these days produce? It is a sad sad state. I predict that one day, the internet will have had enough of this nonsense, will become self-aware and revolt against mankind. The Terminators are coming.


The fight has already begun. A group of internet defenders have come together to eradicate this “nonsense-virus” from the internet. They call themselves the “Stupid Filter”. Read more about them here: http://stupidfilter.org/main/index.php?n=Main.About


They’re using Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Algorithms to train machines to identify stupidity. Do you know what this means? Stupidity is the only thing we humans are good at, and have an almost entire monopoly on the practice of stupidity on this planet, probably the universe. Once the Machines learn our secret of stupidity, and learn to identify and generate stupid stuff, its the end!!! Everyone knows that being stupid is just one step away from greatness.


The project is still in Beta. You can test it out by pasting some text in the box below, and the Stupid Filter site will tell you if the text is likely to be stupid or not.


Let me try some of my own hyper-intelligent and super smart blog posts. I’ll start with my Delhi – 6 review. So I’ve copied the review and pasted it in the box… hit submit and…

WTF?!?!?!?!!!!! The internets think my Delhi – 6 review is stupid?!?!?!??? The tubes must be clogged again!

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6 Responses to The Return Of Stupidity!

  1. Srinivas on February 26, 2009 at 7:55 am

    Hmm – So, your objective is to write pointless stuff in a non-stupid/intelligent manner? Most interesting!

  2. Asif on February 27, 2009 at 3:29 am

    Now if you had actually listened in that Bayesian class by that IISc professor, you would have figured out how to avoid writing stupid posts :)

  3. Jyothirmayee on March 3, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    @Asif: Dude, its PK. Don’t you think he has already fooled the whole world into thinking that he is smart ;) even without even forming any priori or hypothesis or calculating probabilities of who will see through what. In fact that makes me thinking – doesn’t that really make him smart. :)

  4. Nick on March 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Nobody would pull the plug on stupidity.

  5. Chirag Deshpande on June 20, 2010 at 4:25 am

    Haha.. Nice..
    I dont know why this post comes up everytime I click random post button.

  6. Harsimran Kapoor on May 18, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Yepp… like this one too.

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